Food experiments from my little kitchen

How do you like to cook your fish? My first choice is always steam because it is easy and does not make your kitchen oily. Next is pan fried - although I love the taste, it always make my kitchen oily. This time I tried to cook my fish a different way - baked in oven with panko. I must say, my boy is really not used to eating fish like this but my husband said it's not that bad tasting. Ingredients 2 portion of red grouper (or any firm white fish / I think fillet works even better) 1/2 cup Panko (breadcrumbs) 1/4 cup grated Gouda cheese  1 tbsp butter 1 tbsp lemon juice  Salt Black pepper Recipe 1. Season the fish with salt and black pepper and set aside. 2. Melt the butter in a bowl and add lemon juice to it. Mix well.  3. Coat the fish in the butter mixture and place on the baking tray. 4. In a bowl, mix the grated cheese and panko together. This time I did not add any oil to the panko and it does not brown that well. I suggest you can add some butter/...

Steamed fish is a very comforting dish especially when I have been sick for the past few days. I usually will steam the whole slab of fish but this time I decided to cut the fish into slices before steaming. This will shorten the steaming time and save some time. Ingredients 1 pax portion of fish fillet (I used red grouper) 1 stalk of spring onions 1 knob of ginger Some wolfberries Soy sauce Water Sugar White pepper Marinate 2 tsp Chinese cooking wine 2 tsp Soy sauce Cornstarch Recipe 1. Marinate the fish slices using the marinate ingredients stated above. 2. Soak the wolfberries to soften. Cut the ginger into stripes. 3. Smash the white part of spring onions and cut them into parts. Cut the green part of spring onions diagonally into strips. 4. Place ginger strips and white parts of spring onions on the steaming dish. 5. Arrange the fish slices on top and add some more ginger strips. 6. Sprinkle the wolfberries and green strips of spring onions on top of the...

I was contemplating whether to just do a simple steam fish with soy sauce then I remembered I had the bottle of kecap manis sitting in my cupboard. I saw some cooking members making ikan bakar (grilled fish) using kecap manis but there were quite a number of ingredients and I would need to marinate for some time. After doing some Googling (as usual), I decided to try this recipe at Indochine Kitchen which has a simple sauce recipe - Fried fish with sweet soy sauce ! Did a few modifications here and there so I am not sure if it should taste the way it was but husband said it's good so I am happy. :) Ingredients Fish slices (I used red grouper, abt 2 pax servings) 1 clove garlic 1 small onion Cornstarch Soy sauce Chinese cooking wine  Some salt Pepper Chopped spring onions Sauce 3 Tbsp Kecap manis 1/2 lemon juice 2 tsp sugar 1/4 cup water Recipe 1. Marinate the fish slices in soy sauce, chinese cooking wine and cornstarch. (Estimated) 2. Slice the garlic and oni...

Nowadays when I cook 红斑鱼 or the red grouper (I think that is the correct English name...), I like to pan fry it. I find that pan frying it makes it nicer than steaming. That is my personal opinion. Today I actually planned to cook it with ginger and soy sauce. But I saw half a lemon sitting in my fridge and I wanted to use that. Was thinking whether I should cut the fish into slices then deep fry it before making the lemon sauce. Due to time constraint, I decided to just pan fry the fish first and make the sauce after that. It was a good move as I managed to stir fry my vegetables while pan frying the fish. Ingredients Red grouper thick slice (any other fish that has firm flesh) Ginger strips Cornstarch solution  Sauce 1 part lemon juice 2 part orange juice  Some water  1/2 tsp sugar Pinch of salt Recipe 1. Clean the fish and rub it with salt. Wash off the salt and pat dry with kitchen towel. 2. Oil the pan and gently place the fish in. Allow it to pan f...

I asked my son what he wanted to have for dinner that day when his daddy is not around and he replied "fish porridge". Then I was thinking what kind of porridge should I make? Usually I would cook the porridge till it is congee-like and put in the fish slices to cook. Teochew style fish porridge came to my mind. For the fish slices, I chose to use 红斑鱼. Not sure what should be the correct English name for this fish. Red grouper or red snapper or something else? If you know, pls drop me a comment to tell me, thanks! To make it more nutritious, I added in some spinach and wolfberries too. Ingredients Fish slices Cooked rice Spinach Wolfberries Fried shallots Soy beans Fish bones Ginger slices Chinese cooking wine White pepper Soy sauce  Salt Recipe 1. Wash the soy beans and place them in a stock bag. Heat a pot of boiling water and add the beans to let it boil for 20-30 minutes. 2. Add in some fish bones and ginger slices to let it further cook for another 15...